Well there is a bunch of standards aimed at this, already mentioned are EDI and cXML. But another very ambitious is Oasis' UBL. In Denmark and a few other european countries you basically have to support invoicing in UBL (Or more specifically the danish subset OIOUBL or scandinavian subset NESUBL) if you want to do business with government as it is a requirement.[1] In a transition-phase (which i don't know if still is ongoing) suppliers could send invoices to a "scanning agency" that would attempt to convert the invoice to OIOUBL and send on to the government institution.

This has pushed adoption of these things in Denmark quite a bit and we see a lot of big corporations demanding of their suppliers that they support these formats.

Edit: [1] Previous to OIOUBL danish government had its own format called OIOXML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML

Original arguments for rewriting: http://umbraco.com/follow-us/blog-archive/2010/11/26/umbraco...

Anyone tried this and can give some insight in comparison with ViEmu from http://www.viemu.com/ ?

I use this daily in VS2010, and have used ViEmu in previous VS versions.

Generally, I like it, but it can be a bit sluggish at times. The only plugin I have running is JSLint, so I suspect it's VSVim causing the problems (though it only generally bogs down when I leave VS2010 for a bit). The keybindings work as one would expect. As I mentioned in a different thread, I wish it could break out of the tabbed window convention of VS and use buffers.

ViEmu did feel a bit faster (and was less prone to crashing).

What version are you using? Prior to 1.2 there was a nasty perf bug with :hlsearch that caused it to be sluggish with 1) very large files or 2) a good number of files opened. The bug is mostly fixed in 1.2 but there are still a couple of corner cases. Those are addressed in 1.3 which will be released sometime next week. A beta drop is available here

https://github.com/downloads/jaredpar/VsVim/VsVim-1.2-Beta2....

As for crashes I'd love to hear about any you found. Feel free to send me email (hacker news alias at microsoft.com) or post an issue on github.

https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/issues

I haven't tried VsVim, but I can say that the guy who writes ViEmu is a really nice guy who is extremely responsive to suggestions.

I can chime in as I just purchased ViEmu. It's really wonderful to have all the Vim bindings present in studio (and the rest of Office!). I haven't noticed any speed issues and I haven't noticed bugs (yet), but I've only been using now daily for two weeks and I haven't installed any plugins for it.

Yes. I have been a happy ViEmu customer for three or four years now. It's basically perfect. Integrates with Visual Assist, too. Very worth the $99.

I've used ViEmu for 5 years. I'm very satisfied with it. Don't have any reason to try VsVim, but it's nice to know there's more than one option now.